Be a part…

Friends,

I just signed up to be part of the The Day We Fight Back, a coalition of some of the biggest websites on the Internet and their users, fighting back against government surveillance. You should join us in this effort, here’s what it’s about:

In January 2012 we defeated the SOPA and PIPA censorship legislation with the largest Internet protest in history. A year ago this month one of that movement’s leaders, Aaron Swartz, tragically passed away.

Today we face a different threat, one that undermines the Internet, and the notion that any of us live in a genuinely free society: mass surveillance.

If Aaron were alive, he’d be on the front lines, fighting against a world in which governments observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action.

The SOPA and PIPA protests were successful because we all took part, as a community. As Aaron once put it, everybody „made themselves the hero of their own story.“ We can set a date, but a real movement requires everyone, and in particular the users of the Internet, to get involved.